Spaced’s Peter Serafinowicz To Become The Tick

Deadline reports that British actor Peter Serafinowicz will don the blue tights of The Tick in Amazon’s pilot based on Ben Edlund‘s comic book.

Serafinowicz may be a familiar face, but a more familiar voice. He was the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. He later parodied the character’s line, “At last we will have revenge,” in an episode of Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright‘s sitcom Spaced.

The actor joins the previously announcedGriffin Newman, who will play Arthur, and The Following’sValorie Curry as Arthur’s sister Dot. In the new series, Arthur will be a discredited hero trying to find his place in the world again when he is reunited with an amnesiac Tick.

Transcendence director Wally Pfister will helm the pilot, but it is unclear if Amazon will take the project straight to series, or test it with Amazon Prime subscribers as part of its pilot season promotion.